| Beast from the East 2019. 11:22 - Jan 4 with 2330 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Looking like a ‘Triple Polar Vortex” is going to make January a very cold & snowy month. Looks like Bankster was on the money with his weather predictions again. |  |
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It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:23 - Jan 4 with 2314 views | StokieBlue |
UK cold in winter shocker.
I actually like it when we have a decent winter, it's nice to have seasons which one can differentiate from each other.
Does make cycling rather cold though, cycle home last night was freezing. Also clearly not good for people who can't cope with the temperatures or rough sleepers. Hopefully they will be looked after.
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:25 - Jan 4 with 2297 views | brazil1982 |
Isn't this said every year?
Yes, good to have cold winters - does the garden plants a lot of good. |  | | |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:26 - Jan 4 with 2291 views | SaleAway |
have you been reading the express again? | |
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:51 - Jan 4 with 2194 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:23 - Jan 4 by StokieBlue |
UK cold in winter shocker.
I actually like it when we have a decent winter, it's nice to have seasons which one can differentiate from each other.
Does make cycling rather cold though, cycle home last night was freezing. Also clearly not good for people who can't cope with the temperatures or rough sleepers. Hopefully they will be looked after.
SB [Post edited 4 Jan 2019 11:25]
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Agreed, love a walk in the snow with my dog. |  |
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:56 - Jan 4 with 2178 views | factual_blue |
How this works (as confirmed to me by a former EADT journalist).
Journalist makes phone call to Met Office or similar institution.
Journalist: 'Could there be huge quantities of snow during the next couple of months, coupled with sub-zero temperatures?'
Met Office or similar institution: 'Well there could be, but it's too early to say and there is no compelling evidence to suggest this could happen. Although, obviously, it is winter'.
Journalist writes headline
'Met Office predicts snowmageddon '. |  |
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:58 - Jan 4 with 2155 views | dryas |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:56 - Jan 4 by factual_blue |
How this works (as confirmed to me by a former EADT journalist).
Journalist makes phone call to Met Office or similar institution.
Journalist: 'Could there be huge quantities of snow during the next couple of months, coupled with sub-zero temperatures?'
Met Office or similar institution: 'Well there could be, but it's too early to say and there is no compelling evidence to suggest this could happen. Although, obviously, it is winter'.
Journalist writes headline
'Met Office predicts snowmageddon '. |
Quite. |  | | |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:59 - Jan 4 with 2148 views | footers |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:56 - Jan 4 by factual_blue |
How this works (as confirmed to me by a former EADT journalist).
Journalist makes phone call to Met Office or similar institution.
Journalist: 'Could there be huge quantities of snow during the next couple of months, coupled with sub-zero temperatures?'
Met Office or similar institution: 'Well there could be, but it's too early to say and there is no compelling evidence to suggest this could happen. Although, obviously, it is winter'.
Journalist writes headline
'Met Office predicts snowmageddon '. |
Facters, why bother going to all that effort when said journo could simply lift the same story from last year's paper, which was lifted from the year previous?
Come on, those lunchtime pints won't drink themselves. |  |
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:04 - Jan 4 with 2113 views | StokieBlue |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:59 - Jan 4 by footers |
Facters, why bother going to all that effort when said journo could simply lift the same story from last year's paper, which was lifted from the year previous?
Come on, those lunchtime pints won't drink themselves. |
Lunchtime pint - that's a good idea.
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:09 - Jan 4 with 2081 views | footers |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:04 - Jan 4 by StokieBlue |
Lunchtime pint - that's a good idea.
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Pints plural.
Don't want to run the risk of having a productive Friday afternoon. | |
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:10 - Jan 4 with 2075 views | factual_blue |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:59 - Jan 4 by footers |
Facters, why bother going to all that effort when said journo could simply lift the same story from last year's paper, which was lifted from the year previous?
Come on, those lunchtime pints won't drink themselves. |
Whichever way it's done, stupid people are stupid enough to fall for it. | |
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:12 - Jan 4 with 2062 views | footers |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:10 - Jan 4 by factual_blue |
Whichever way it's done, stupid people are stupid enough to fall for it. |
Wrap up warm, facters. I need to pick up my new companion for the coming ice age...
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:13 - Jan 4 with 2052 views | StokieBlue |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:09 - Jan 4 by footers |
Pints plural.
Don't want to run the risk of having a productive Friday afternoon. |
I remember about 15 years ago I was in a bar called Potemkin (bonus points for knowing what that is) in the early evening and the Guardian offices used to be just around the corner.
There were two journos at the bar who had clearly been there many, many hours and were regulars. One went off to the toilet and whilst he was gone the other one literally fell off his stool. It wasn't a normal fall, it was like a tree trunk that falls under gravity - only thing missing was someone yelling timber. Must have hurt but I think his senses were totally dulled by that point.
I guess once the story is in it's time to hit the pub in that profession.
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:15 - Jan 4 with 2039 views | Keno |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 11:26 - Jan 4 by SaleAway |
have you been reading the express again? |
Its what Princess Di would have wanted |  |
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:19 - Jan 4 with 2013 views | footers |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:13 - Jan 4 by StokieBlue |
I remember about 15 years ago I was in a bar called Potemkin (bonus points for knowing what that is) in the early evening and the Guardian offices used to be just around the corner.
There were two journos at the bar who had clearly been there many, many hours and were regulars. One went off to the toilet and whilst he was gone the other one literally fell off his stool. It wasn't a normal fall, it was like a tree trunk that falls under gravity - only thing missing was someone yelling timber. Must have hurt but I think his senses were totally dulled by that point.
I guess once the story is in it's time to hit the pub in that profession.
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As a wordsmith who speaks Russian, this story is very close to my heart!
Was the bar near the old Fleet Street by any chance? Or I suppose even 15 years ago the journos had mainly moved on from there...
Fun fact: Potemkin is pronounced po-tyom-kin, not po-tem-kin or po-tyem-kin, as the transliteration doesn't differentiate between the three different 'e' sounds in Russian. I would get out more but there are some angry Cossacks outside. | |
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| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:23 - Jan 4 with 1982 views | StokieBlue |
| Beast from the East 2019. on 12:19 - Jan 4 by footers |
As a wordsmith who speaks Russian, this story is very close to my heart!
Was the bar near the old Fleet Street by any chance? Or I suppose even 15 years ago the journos had mainly moved on from there...
Fun fact: Potemkin is pronounced po-tyom-kin, not po-tem-kin or po-tyem-kin, as the transliteration doesn't differentiate between the three different 'e' sounds in Russian. I would get out more but there are some angry Cossacks outside. |
It was in Clerkenwell, down Farringdon way where the old Guardian offices were:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2008/dec/15/1
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